Roger Nimier

Roger Nimier was born in Paris in 1925. At the end of the Second World War, he served in the 2nd Hussar Regiment. He published his first novel in 1948, at the age of twenty-three, and became a literary adviser at Gallimard. He also contributed to the journal La Table ronde. He passed for the leader of the Hussards, young writers opposed to existentialism and to the commitment advocated by Sartre, alongside Antoine Blondin, Michel Déon and Jacques Laurent. He died on 28 September 1962.

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• NovelThe Blue HussarLe Hussard bleuRoger Nimier · 1950Literature